POSE: Phase I: OPERA: An Open-Source Ecosystem for Broadband Prairie

农村宽带对农村经济和生活质量至关重要，但美国39%的农村地区缺乏宽带接入，大多数农场根本没有连接。为了应对这一挑战，本项目建议为bRoadband prAirie（OPERA）开发Open-source生态系统。OPERA将使研究人员能够将他们的农村宽带研究实验转化为开源软件，数据和硬件设计，这些设计可以与开源平台集成，以生成以农村为重点的宽带解决方案。预计该项目不仅将在今天实现以农村为重点的宽带技术创新，而且还将使农村地区能够成为长期持续宽带创新的积极参与者。利用农业和农村社区（ARA）无线生活实验室（https：//arawireless.org/），这是NSF高级无线研究平台（PAWR）计划的一部分，OPERA将提供组织和治理结构以及社区建设领导，以促进宽带草原的开源生态系统（OSE）。特别是，为了生成超出典型研究实验结果的高质量开源软件，数据和硬件设计，OPERA将通过开源指导以及OSE流程，基础设施和合作伙伴支持来补充ARA支持的科学实验。促进将研究产品整合到开源平台中，并将其实际应用于具体的农村应用。OPERA将促进研究人员、开源社区和农村地区利益相关者之间的跨部门合作。 这些合作将建立在来自学术界，工业界，政府和农村社区的现有62+ ARA合作伙伴的基础上。 利用宽带研究人员、开源开发人员和农村应用社区的互补优势，OPERA准备帮助释放研究和开源社区在应对农村宽带挑战方面的全部能力。它为个人研究人员提供了生态系统支持，使其能够直接影响现实世界，并使农村地区能够共同塑造持续的宽带创新。OPERA支持的开源指导将现实世界的开源实践注入研究实验，并通过专注于生产质量的原型设计来加强体验式学习。OPERA支持的开源创新和跨部门合作将有助于吸引研究中代表性不足的学生，同时为本科生和研究生教育提供独特的学习机会。有关该项目及其最新成果的更多信息，请访问项目网站https://wici.iastate.edu/opera.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估来支持的搜索.

Rural broadband is important for the rural economy and quality of life, yet 39% of the rural US lacks broadband access, and most agriculture farms are not connected at all. To address the challenge, this project proposes to develop the OPen-source Ecosystem for bRoadband prAirie (OPERA). OPERA will enable researchers to transform their rural broadband research experiments into open-source software, data, and hardware designs that can be integrated with open-source platforms to generate rural-focused broadband solutions. The project is expected to not only enable rural-focused broadband technology innovation today but also empower rural regions to become active participants in continuous broadband innovation in the long term. Leveraging the Agriculture and Rural Communities (ARA) wireless living lab (https://arawireless.org/), which is a part of the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, OPERA will provide the organization and governance structure as well as community building leadership in fostering the open-source ecosystem (OSE) for broadband prairie. In particular, to generate high-quality open-source software, data, and hardware-designs beyond typical research experiment results, OPERA will complement ARA-enabled scientific experimentation with open-source coaching as well as the OSE process, infrastructure, and partnership support. To facilitate the integration of research products into open-source platforms and their real-world adoption in specific rural applications. OPERA will facilitate cross-sector collaborations among researchers, open-source communities, and rural region stakeholders. These collaborations will build upon the existing 62+ ARA partners from academia, industry, government, and rural communities. Leveraging the complementary strengths of broadband researchers, open-source developers, and rural application communities, OPERA is poised to help unleash the full capacity of the research and open-source communities in addressing the rural broadband challenge. It provides the ecosystem support for individual researchers to make direct real-world impact, and it empowers rural regions in co-shaping the continuous broadband innovation. OPERA-enabled open-source coaching infuses real-world open-source practice into research experimentation, and it strengthens experiential learning by focusing on production-quality prototyping. OPERA-enabled open-source innovation and cross-sector collaboration will help attract underrepresented students in research, while providing unique learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate education.For additional information about the project and its latest results, go to the project website at https://wici.iastate.edu/opera.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.